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mine because the minerals then are submerged beneath the water and it's isolated from oxygen oxygen is the key. there back when they first go in up there was a lot of oxygen available in the mines and that was causing oxidation of the mantle which in turn creates space for sulfur myself here a task that you have torque. which starts up in kansas runs through the mining belt. contaminated it down that which is just south of picher it then runs on the east side of commerce runs through the center of miami only into the osho river. on instagram like let's just say spend doing this and say nothing but orange yucky smelly.

but this watershed isn't clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks. and if water rolls into the mines or slides off the chap pilot flows out from the underground is real bad news. isaac newton says the reaction to the mining is a lifetime pollutant war. and this mine system swallows any ground water hole and then coughs up one's blood. and a look at these problems and say this has been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years of superfund it's it's since money. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it was a good thing to be honest but this is the legacy live kind of a publication the fix. if you drive through picher right now and drive down down the road nothing's changed nothing is really changed. that put us on the m.p.l.

list it's a disgrace and it's sad. but no one has done anything about the water the air but i'm ashamed right now there are no protection agency the bureau of indian affairs with the part of the interior because they've spent all this time talking to us telling you this you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher drive down douthat road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the parts of the book. no one cares about the people that live there this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fit there been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all of this mine waste direct danger to children they can get the

help they need it should have an easy to put a bio together whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or a highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time and human health dangers here seem to qualify plus are progres events had an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim inhofe steer the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee oversees and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental bio money goes in half was the faucet you have a place like this in your home state you're carrying the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well. you could also know what he was cooking the problem was that inhofe is a soldier of industry. fact is in-house brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies inhofe is indeed with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that could get expensive so they

just pay in hard to make this buyout talk is appear in the citizens at stake but to prove that he was working for auto accounting folksy put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together using the move all the check they were in the math on the plan the same day it was released if you are in fifty trucks a day all day he would take forty years just to move a check forty years doing the job would cost two hundred twenty five million not eighteen but complete by i was estimated at fifty million and everyone knows inhofe not much of a science and could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people and i believe he is but it turned out he wasn't a math guy either but then came news that not even enough could spin

if you go away from the whining. i didn't hear no new ways or anything but it was always a problem and i just said. i'm going to surprise it. just a little feeling. they looked at water and i looked at last. well the trouble is they forgot to look at subsidence risk which is of course the undermining that goes along with hard rock mining you know it turns out that the earliest significant mine which really shouldn't be a surprise to anybody since they took out i don't know two hundred fifty million tons of or maybe more when this underground mining was done sometimes clear up the war late to avoid. tree roots. when you have a several hundred foot mine room that's going almost the surface guess what. class on these days and that's why and what you're seeing out there it's all undermined

and pitcher and cardinals or people are live and they could wake up one day in the house to be slapped in the moment. they didn't care what they've done to the city pitcher it's just sickening trailers and you know. i think they can prove. oh medium size cave in now this is media. this is on par and well it's the biggest cave in an area that your field right here is probably i will say no one hundred fifty foot deeper than what the water is right now. but i think there is a public policy issue here. if you can account for all the risk and environmental side should be in charge well i've been around these my whole life and i'm still

scared i mean if. there's just no forgiveness if anything happens around me. if you start going down that's it you're history. it sounds crazy but those holes are actually a blessing as they can afford to move everyone out and often already counted his gavel that the current problems were bad enough so things had to get worse to get anything done several areas collapse that summer and off finally agreed to a study to prove the extent of the undermining. not had need to be proven another study felt exhausting you know it felt tired to have to prove that the land was actually undermined and more holes were coming but it was a material chance to get a buyout so nobody feeds this two million dollars starting. you can't ignore the dead or what the data shows in regards to the severity of the

underground mining it was not appear and you cannot dispute it in any way as we were able to get political support to evaluate their risk then it became obvious that people should live there and it's best for in the long run because both worry about the more kids being raised the missiles are you know we've got to put in you know that what we are doing is we are going in finding comparables outside a project area. and you don't keep in mind superfund site is a bigger area than the project there the project area is that area that i told you about the forty's were a mile area that was in that subsidence teen study they're finding properties outside that area and then giving them comparable value for their property and trust has tried to make some provisions to make sure that everybody gets a minimal decent level of housing so in other words if you live in

a in some standard housing we don't want to give you just enough money to go live in some senior housing in miami or somewhere else people get an appraisal and and i don't care if you live in a five hundred thousand dollars house are going to very well and you know my family thought my house was worth more than you know and so what i keep telling people is be realistic in reality if you took the vast amounts and the condition that it's in take it and stick it in my oklahoma good sign on the front yard how much do you really think you're going to get for that house kind of interesting we've been so busy trying to do the appraisal issues and those kind of things to get people i hope under very first value something that's hard and. like with any appraisal that everybody's happy with their phrase that. it's such it's a chance for these people that they really would never have otherwise i might stay braced for my life fast here because had i feel like i got maybe

a year or two years you know i did not even i had septic god but yours are not right. i hate to move you know if you start from the olsen kitchen staff and get to have to get rid of. different things as a moderate would be nice to have had my sandwich you know i'm not able to take care free and if they hardly do you know so. yeah they much but it's home. and it's got to be hard leaving home practically being made to leave this place artist on their health and their children so it's one of the property values but it's still. one of the bio reaches critical mass there won't be any more fire department any more police any more like tricity or water stores it'll just be paved country lined with rusted street signs and

when you go through all that and are told the one place you can't live is home you deserve a by a process that is dignified and clean so the trust was appointed to represent the citizens during a buyout process they carry out orders from the federal government and all appraisal issues and cut checks for the homes and i'm just making a little short statement i was offered fifteen dollars by square foot for my business and there is no way that you can build and many stories i know it's not gigantic it's just already built. and built it is nice i'm not for a moment people look at it we're thinking from our health and for the base package the gun trail the house the land the three lots eighty thousand dollars and there's no way you go to mom and wife this for eighty thousand dollars is impossible. hundred two thousand the fair yes and i don't think i can actually go to my man replacement for one hundred. and i went through all of the trying to find

out why they said well that's just what we have heard today that the pros are very business for twenty five years they should know what they're good for live below the belt. the appraisal company cinnabar services out of tulsa is doing shoddy work and the trust is panem one point eight million dollars to do shoddy work they're rude to the people they have consistencies and the trust will not hold them accountable. to listen only second i had i listened what you guys listen we have people want to say this is not like the first guy well we did the same things we put something out for bid we hired a contractor we have gone in and taught in their appraisals and we've had them review i mean and in all honesty the values are higher in this buyout than they were in the first and what do you see in the news record here's today's news record

trust the fans buy out approach the trust is circling the wagons you know the target is supposed to take care of these people and they're not doing or they're going to be people who feel like they were to more yes what i can dish is that there's been no conspiracy on the part of anyone to get higher values for certain people let me finish. but there is is a lot of innuendo and accusation and yet there is no proof. ok we're coming up on to an elder brother this again hard that kerry have his lap sliding hundred fifteen pass. their house. and health are probably at least eighty years. ok this house on the left longs to

see and say rebates and they've been offered seventy thousand cinnabar said there is something wrong with the beats appraisal so they use a trans why did you not tell me we did it we actually you're really really good you didn't raise bet as it means we need you just because we get worse about over there something wrong with the meter praise also listening to the same and. i don't what it means we get to read it part of it if it is significant that. mark even like you mean tell me you didn't find anything wrong. thank you. the appraisers probably have a tough with this town there are some poor people here there are some bad looking

homes and i'm sure those create some challenges but you know missing sammy's house is the same size as the heart's missing sami's is much newer and even if you're blind and a little crazy and think these homes are in similar condition and they can bedroom isn't a bedroom if it's not close to a bathroom there's still a forty five thousand dollar difference in a town where the average home is fifty eight grand that's almost the cost of a whole other house and this is the kind of appraisal work the trust hands behind it and they said mysie on her couch and say maybe we gave the cards too much i mean we made a mistake. and in the same breath the thing missing and sammy got a good run on their own dollars here is not a hollywood story where does this leave those who've already worked a lifetime and of course said ok ok back to chapter eleven and ninety two years old me and i say i did it. jackie bird see she called me the other day and so worried about hoover it seems that once she got not neighbors run

across the street so she's god and she don't know about her house since they offered two hundred two thousand not at a point because she said tell me so i don't know why she is wonder. they offered eighty four years young jackie busy twenty two thousand dollars for her home it doesn't matter what her home is like working you move on there. she says gentleman the purpose of this letter is to explain why i do not have a bill of sale and i was twenty one i bought my home in picher oklahoma in the fall of one thousand forty three from doing fields for three hundred seventy five dollars i've lived here for almost sixty three years i'm now almost eighty four years old and have lived in the neighborhood seventy seven years longer as far as i know than anyone now living or dead it is with much regret that i will have to leave my home at this late time in my life and i cannot stay without police

protection sewer service utilities and safe neighbors please let me be among the last to go. how do you expect an eighty year old woman who's lived in that house for sixty years and is on a fixed income. how do you expect her to move out of the superfund site or twenty thousand dollars an hour and you know it's easy for outsiders to come in look at nasa oh my gosh a house and worth five thousand dollars that's right but they're set ladies home that's all she had us and now you're going to take it away from er and now you've got to make or get to get out here and the funny thing is we can come in here and spend seventy thousand dollars to dig up her yard but we can't give her enough

money to move out of town. anyway he was not only cross country he got her hurt this is what environmental problems look like part they look like people problems environmental problems are people problems as long as gravity still holds us here. they aren't separate if you're off or he look at you and these folks have been stolen from their land raped their names drug through the mud they are tough as hell break everything else you can grab at these people and breaking on your science on your say so on your legislation of the month hell yes they get red headed mouths when things seem counterfeit what else do you have on there ain't much. just your word or so and you're back. one hundred years later they're still here still fighting for their health and their cool spite of their. weather is fair weather elaine

they are going. this will not be home anymore. and a hundred years after the first pickaxe struck oklahoma go they're handing this place back to the quapaw appreciate your here's the worst superfund site in the country. can't prove who has even started. we don't just because the buyouts go on there's a new job or will be this is all they can buy these people out which is their what they're going to do but the tribes going to be here forever because the government's not going to give them any more land you can see that with all this mind why it's covering the landscape it's really not usable in the sixty's eagle construes prissy for them to get out of their leases you know and to move away also offered to put. them back in the mines. in the department of

interior. stating the there. were no longer really good for anything they were rooting for agriculture or you know the purpose but the only economic group who left. the gravel surface and they could so ground when they stirred realizing that chad had heavy metals it was was environmentally as a. part of the interior realized that that's a liability since they manage the asset of the tribe if they allow that to be sold and they would incur liability because if this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place might become a super fund site they're lucky there's so little left today there's no telling what the epidemic would look like if there were five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks are making ground tremble but eighty years later

there's it's seventy five million tons eighty years of kids passing through struggling in school. here gone this chad didn't just sort of the kids who tested i . bet was here in mountains before anyone was running test so not only is the chad left on the indian elise where the tribal member can't use the land then they found out they couldn't sell it either so their land became useless as a result the cat's been just sitting here for eighty nine hundred years you know we're being restricted for more sales but the money indians are not this check causes lead poisoning that's not an opinion it ruins this very land that was given to the quapaw to replace what they gave up in the b i a made sure this chad stayed right here the b.a.a.

said these are the people who are going to believe because of this waste what is now so clear about this function is that damaging the land is not a separate act from damaging the culture. the whole reason that the government paper tribe this land was to replace the land where they came from you know that the quapaw try occupied most of what is now arkansas. you know and i feel bad for the people that are living over in picher. i feel bad that they don't have to move i feel bad that they're going to have to be relocated but you know what well posed in one leader council. so. it's giving bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds

squirrels yeah. ducks geese you know i don't know what's going on here this this is like rachel carson's nightmare today you know we're having a silent foer here and you know where are the birds where's the wall live. just don't see this is really unusual i've never been on this river and seen it you can even hear a bird chirping you know. i think the worst story would have to be.

the worst story would have to be the kids we let slip through the cracks. the kids that. didn't get any help early on. because if you look back if you look like i'm schools history and if you talk to families. those probes are working under it. and we do know. hundreds of towns and cities have diminished even died when industry pulls up stakes at these towns in oklahoma began to die because industry arrived way back

when it would have been impossible to know the dimension of destruction they'd be left with or who would be hurt by back then jobs trumped everything maybe they still do back then they had no concept of the future and now we are the heirs of our grandparents a mess. and here we are about to shoot the porch light out on this town how many more times can we strike lead or uranium oil before there's no more country. in the.

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